The 2018 Colorado General Assembly started in January with relatively low expectations for major accomplishments given split political control of the legislature in an election year. However, by the time the legislature adjourned last week, major legislation important to the JeffCo business community passed – even if some of those last minute deals took place […]

With just a week left in Colorado’s 2018 legislative session, many bills dealing with the priorities of the Jefferson County Business Lobby await resolution, but action on those are accelerating as the May 9th adjournment date looms. Maybe the most important example is transportation funding, a consistent topic in these JCBL updates. Both Republicans and […]

Colorado’s 2019 budget to spend new revenue on transportation, PERA reforms and K-12 Unlike the U.S. Congress, Colorado’s state legislature must pass a balanced budget each year, as required by our state Constitution. Two full weeks of each 16-week legislative session is spent debating the coming year’s state budget, a process the legislature just completed. […]

The 2018 session of Colorado’s state legislature has been a relatively slow one for major business issues so far, but that all changed this week when the state’s economists released their latest forecast for state tax revenue receipts. That number is important because most of the outstanding major issues left for Republican Senate and Democratic […]

The Jefferson County Business Lobby’s top priorities for 2018, as in years past, is increasing the state’s investment in our transportation infrastructure. Colorado is amassing a transportation investment deficit of nearly $1 billion each year, and we are spending half as much on transportation, on a per-person basis, as we did 25 years ago. While […]

The Colorado Legislature kicked off its 2018 session this week with broad bi-partisan agreement on the major challenges facing the state, but with little consensus on how to solve them. The Jefferson County Business Lobby was there for the opening ceremonies and will be advocating for the JeffCo business community throughout this intense 120 day […]

Transportation Funding and Construction Lawsuits Dominate Business Issues in 2017 Legislature The Arvada Chamber of Commerce advocates at the Colorado Statehouse for our members through the Jefferson County Business Lobby. The JCBL reviewed over 70 bills with a direct impact on JeffCo businesses in the just-completed 2017 legislative session. A full list of the bills […]

The Jefferson County Business Lobby and the Arvada Chamber of Commerce have made ending the state’s transportation funding crisis one of our top priorities in the Colorado Legislature for 2017. With this legislative session half over, major progress toward that goal was made recently with the introduction of a large, bi-partisan funding plan. The plan (HB17-1242) – […]

Legislature’s top priorities for the 2017 legislative session should be fixing the state’s transportation funding crisis and the construction litigation abuses that have contributed to a lack of affordable housing options. And, in fact, those two topics have dominated discussions at the highest levels of leadership in both the Democrat-controlled State House of Representatives and […]

By Jeff Weist Jefferson County Business Lobby The Arvada Chamber of Commerce is an active member of the Jefferson County Business Lobby, the unified voice of 3,000 Jefferson County businesses advocating for public policies that strengthen our economy. We wanted to give you a preview of some of the business issues on which the JCBL is […]